Word: burgers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show that Herbert Haupt (son of Hans and Erna, nephew of Walter and Lucille) was an enemy, U.S. attorneys summoned to the witness stand Ernest Peter Burger, one of the two saboteurs who tattled on the others to save their own skins. To Americans who think of spies in terms of the movie-made breed of sinister villain, Ernest Burger was a distinct surprise. His grey suit was neat and quiet, his thin brown hair slicked down tightly, his deep-set blue eyes calm. As a witness he was courteous, cooperative, almost eager. Only once did he seem...
...military commission which tried the saboteurs had recommended that the other two, George John Dasch and Ernest Peter Burger, get life imprisonment instead of death. They had turned informers. President Roosevelt, reviewing the commission's findings, reduced Dasch's sentence to 30 years at hard labor. (Dasch and Burger might be useful at the trials of 14 men & women accused of giving the spies shelter...
...White House made its announcement, two Army ambulances drove into the jail yard. A half-hour later the U.S. Marshal's van appeared: Dasch and Burger went off to hard labor. In the courtyard, in the drizzle, six sheeted bodies on stretchers were loaded in the ambulances-four in one, two in the other. Steel-helmeted soldiers, with bayonets and machine guns, kept a little crowd of the curious away. The ambulances swung out slowly on the wet pavement, took the bodies to the Walter Reed Hospital for autopsy...
...NASH BURGER Jackson, Miss...